Show Of Force

In order to celebrate joining our illustrious corporation Aideron Robotics, Blake Armitage of K162space blog decided to throw a couple Rorquals into an event we were calling Operation Rorqual Rescue.

Basically we took a fleet all the way to the ass end of The Citadel region to the Hasama system, jumped two Rorquals in, and then roamed with the capitals back to Old Man Star in Essence region including a drive by through Tama.

And excepting a few frigs that shadowed us no one bothered us for the tour through low sec with multi-billion ISK industrial capitals in tow. Which was surprising, we were expecting to get hotdropped or at least harassed by someone looking for those Rorqual killmails.

Probably had something to do with our fleet of 23+ of these:

Supported by about 9 of these:

And a handful of these:

As well as a handful of other ships.

All told our fleet numbered about 60 pilots including the two Rorquals and I don't know about you, but I'd be nervous facing off against that with anything short of a full on capital deployment. It was a show of force and no one was prepared at short notice to take us up on it last night.

So Blake's Rorquals made it home safely and no insurance fraud was perpetrated.

At least, not yet.

But maybe the next Bring Me The Head of Kirith Kodachi will have some guest stars...

UPDATE: Screenshots here at k162 blog.

Test Flight: Navy Brutix Part 1

So I downloaded SIS and got on to try out the new Navy Brutix for a little bit and thought I'd post my thoughts here.

First thing I noticed while fitting it out was that it was comfortable in terms of power grid and CPU. I went with a very basic fit of blasters and drones and self rep to see what it could do.

Highs
6 x Heavy Neutron Blaster IIs
Empty Slot

Mids
10MN Experimental MWD
Warp Scrambler II
2 x Stasis Webifier II

Lows
Medium Ancillary Armour Repairer, Nanite Paste
Medium Armour Repairer II
Damage Control II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
3 x Magnetic Field Stabilizer IIs

Rigs
Medium Anti-Explosive Armour Pump I
2 x Medium Nanobot Accelerator I

There was enough power grid and CPU for a small neutralizer in the empty high slot. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time to try the fit out very much as both times I warped to a beacon I got ganked pretty hard. The first time I had engaged a Rokh and was chewing through him pretty good but a tracking Moros nailed me, and the second time I engaged a duo (or was it trio?) of Vexor Navy Issues who demonstrated the power of those ships with neutralizers in the highs and five heavy drones. Fear the new VNI.

The vulnerability of this fit to neutralizers is not unexpected and I might try to squeeze a cap booster in there to alleviate this issue. Definitely not a solo vessel.

I plan to have a couple more goes this week and try some various things out and see if I can get some even fights out of it. I'll try and keep stuff posted here.